“I’m not surprised that Pelosi would select Cummings. She wanted to put ‘stink’ on the [Benghazi] investigation and save former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s political career as well as avoiding any investigations of President [Barack] Obama. And Cummings put a lot of ‘stink’ on the probe.” – Criminal Investigator

Even as millions of movie-goers across the country are watching the controversial motion picture 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, Maryland Democrat Rep. Elijah Cummings continues — with the help of a compliant news media — to sabotage and spout disinformation about GOP Rep. Trey Gowdy’s committee and its motives.

Cummings, who was knee-deep in the activities of the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of conservative non-profit groups, had been chosen by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (see video below) to sit on the House Select Committee on Benghazi to do just that, according to former criminal investigator Carl Wortten. “I’m not surprised that Pelosi would select Cummings. She wanted to put ‘stink’ on the [Benghazi] investigation and save former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as well as avoiding any suspicions of President [Barack] Obama. And Cummings put a lot of ‘stink’ on the probe,” Wortten said.

Pelosi appointed the Democrat members — some say obstruction team — to make certain the GOP members would tread lightly.

From the beginning and without end, Cummings made statements about the Benghazi hearings being politicized by the Republican members of the Committee on Benghazi, but according to an investigator who works for a non-profit government watchdog group, Cummings is merely using an Alinsky tactic: “Accuse others of what you do.”

The investigator, Thomas Harris Bennington, a 30-year police veteran, told Conservative Base.com that Cummings is being quoted on television news shows throughout the nation saying that the families of those who lost loved ones at the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya on Sept. 11, 2012, spoke to him and asked that the committee of Democrats and Republicans not turn the proceedings into a political football.

“I’m certain that those family members are disgusted with Cummings and the Democrats who have been stonewalling, badmouthing, and delaying the investigation just to help Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. I’m absolutely sure they didn’t ask him to run interference for Clinton and her minions,” said Bennington.

In fact, the tender-hearted Democrats called witnesses who were at the scene of the Battle of Benghazi liars. Hillary Clinton herself implied that the family members of men killed by the radical Muslims in Libya are lying since she claims she never told them the attack was due to some anti-Muslim YouTube video.

Cummings made his grandiose statement, but he’s known to be as hypocritical as they come in Washington, noted Bennington’s assistant, another former police detective, Lionel Mason.

Rep. Cummings claims the families told him to do three things in the committee: “[Number] one, do not make this a political football. They begged us with tears in their eyes. Number two, they asked us to find out about what happened that night and if there were things we did not know before, to let them know. And number three, they said do every single thing in your power make sure this does not happen to another member of our diplomatic corps. And I think we have strayed away basically from all three of them.”

But in the usual Cummings style, it seems he’s not being truthful about the families of those killed on Hillary Clinton’s watch at the State Department. For example, from the beginning the mother of one of the deceased Foreign Service officers claims she is still waiting to hear from Clinton. As Secretary of State Clinton had attended the services for Sean Smith and the others killed by terrorists and Mrs. Smith said Clinton promised her she would see justice and that it was because of a movie video that her son was killed.

Patricia Smith, the mother of one of the four victims of the Benghazi attack, said this week on Fox News that she still has not heard anything from Hillary Clinton. “At least Fox [News Channel] is allowing this poor woman who lost her baby — yes, Sean was her baby — to speak out. Other news outlets won’t give Mrs. Smith the time of day because they’re all in the tank for Clinton as president, even if she’s a liar and an incompetent,” said political consultant Mike Baker.

Since that service in 2012, Smith said she’s never heard from Clinton or her minions, and she accused the Department of State of covering up information about her son’s death. “As far as I’m concerned, Hillary is anti-mother. She will not give me an answer to anything. As far as I know, it was the video that caused everything because no one has told me any different,” she said.

While the Democrats claim they are bending to the wishes of the families who lost loved ones, Smith said she believes Clinton should be the center of the investigation because the Benghazi compound was her responsibility and she neglected to beef up security knowing there had been bombings and other terrorist attacks in that city.

“She has got to let me know. I am the mother. She wasn’t. Why does she know and I can’t find out about my son? It’s been three years. How long is it gonna take before I find out something?” asked Smith. She also claims she was told secretly by some Americans who were on the ground that her son could have been saved if they had been allowed to rush to the compound during the attack.

Another family member that Cummings seems to have missed hearing from, the father of Tyrone Woods, Charles Woods, appeared on Fox News’s Hannity and read aloud four questions about Benghazi from a letter he’d sent to President Obama.

Woods, whose son, former Navy SEAL Tyrone Woods, was also killed in Benghazi. He said, “What we want are not just answers. We also want the truth.”

According to Tom Bennington, President Obama’s statements in his response letter to Charles Woods are either hotly disputed, demonstrably false, or an illogical evasion.

Jim-Kouri

Jim Kouri, CPP, is founder and CEO of Kouri Associates, a homeland security, public safety and political consulting firm. He's formerly Fifth Vice-President, now a Board Member of the National Association of Chiefs of Police, a columnist, and a contributor to the nationally syndicated talk-radio program, the Chuck Wilder Show..
He's former chief of police at a New York City housing project in Washington Heights nicknamed "Crack City" by reporters covering the drug war in the 1980s. In addition, he served as director of public safety at St. Peter's University and director of security for several major organizations. He's also served on the National Drug Task Force and trained police and security officers throughout the country.